Science Collection (#56)

Cuckoo Clock / Henry Grant
A cuckoo clock Date: 1950s

Jules Vernes Tomb
Jules Vernes tomb at Nantes, featured on the cover of an American science-fiction magazine Date: 1828 - 1905

Acoustics 1882
Various demonstrations of acoustics. Date: 1882

Spectroscope Diagram / C19
SPECTROSCOPE Diagram. Date: 1882

Surveying in Afghanistan
A mile-measuring machine (perambulator) being used by the Afghan Boundary Commission. Date: circa 1884

Weighing Machine
A lady on a weighing machine wonders if she ought to cut down on polysaturates Date: circa 1890

Stratification Diagrams
Two diagrams to explain stratification: the books represent the different stratas in a depth of about 5 miles; the hand indicates depth of the coal strata Date: 19th century

Scientist Pours 1955
A scientist pours liquid into a beaker using a glass funnel. Date: 1955

Sending Message to Mars
Communicating with Mars - sending a message with a massive beam of light. Date: 1907

Galvani Frog Exp. 3
He provokes contractions in the legs of a frog using a metal arc Date: early 1780s

Keelers Lie Detector
Leonard Keeler, of North Western University, USA, invents a lie detector based on blood pressure Date: 1937

Electricity & Face
French doctor Duchenne (de Boulogne) demonstrates how facial expressions can be altered by applying electrical current to different muscles of the face Date: circa 1860

MARY BAKER EDDY / 1882-3
MARY BAKER EDDY Founder of Christian Science. Date: 1821 - 1910

HARRISONs NO 5
Harrisons number 5 timekeeper or chronometer for finding longitude (an improved version of the number 4). Date: circa 1760

Creating a clone to solve a love triangle
Creating a clone of the girl that two men are in love with - illustration to The Four-sided Triangle by William F Temple. Date: 1939

Boyles hydrostatic apparatus for weighing materia medica 1691

Science lesson, Northfield House School, Leicester
Two boys experimenting with test tubes at Northfield House Junior School, Leicester. Date: 1965

Anti-suffragette cartoon featuring woman and phrenologist
A fearsome-looking woman, with a scroll labelled Votes (for) Women, is having the bumps on her head examined by a man. He concludes that if she lives for a thousand years

Thomas Edison, American inventor
A decorative design featuring Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor, sitting at his desk

The great telescope at the Paris Exhibition. Theoretically the instrument should display an image of the moon at an apparent average distance of about forty miles

Dr Ernest Walton with Cockcroft-Walton apparatus
Dr Ernest Ts Walton in the cabinet (marked E) into which the high-velocity protons emerge and strike the target of lithium

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory
Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft

Double page spread in a diary for 12-17 August
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 12-17 August. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Metropolitan Police scientific investigator
A Metropolitan Police scientific investigator examining evidence from a crime scene

Metropolitan Police forensic investigators
Two Metropolitan Police forensic investigators gathering evidence at a crime scene

Science classroom, South Wales coalfield
A Science classroom in a school connected to a South Wales coalfield. A schoolteacher supervises a group of well behaved boys who are taking part in various chemical experiments

A page from the Illustrated London News, 1951, showing a reconstruction of Dr. Merryweather of Whitbys Tempest Prognosticator, and an illustration detailing how the device works

Manual of Workhouse Cookery, cover
The cover of a well used copy of the Manual of Workhouse Cookery, marked Matrons Use in the top left corner. The book was published in 1901 alongside a major revision of workhouse diets

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), British mathematical physicist and engineer

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, Cornwall. It marks the location of Marconis telegraph station during the pioneering days of

Sergei Petrovich Botkin, Russian clinician, therapist and activist, one of the founders of modern Russian medical science and education

Clmence Royer / Demare
Clmence Royer (1830-1902) self-taught French scholar who wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. Translator to French of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species

Victor Meunier / Gill
Victor Meunier (1817-1903) French author and journalist, who founded the magazine L Ami des sciences

Education, girls, science
A science class for girls. A Bunsen burner is held against a test tube during a class experiment

Language of Stars 1918
She gazes at the moon and sees an image of her soldier love reflected in it. Three cherubs use a telescope and translate the writing in the stars - Je t aime

Sir Ronald Ross (1857 - 1932), British physician and Nobel Prize winner in 1902, who discovered the scientific link between mosquitoes and human malaria

Astronomy Herschel
George III visits Herschels observatory

Benares - Banks of the Ganges, India
Bathing on the banks of the River Ganges at Benares. This card also shows the Raja Jai Singh Observatory. The massive structure was one of a number of astronomical observatories built by Maharaja

The electric wire at Cape Grinez
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. The image shows a view of Cape Grinez, taking the wire up the cliff

Temporary station at Dover: the steamers prepare to start
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. After arriving in France however

The Social Science Association at Westminster Hall, London
Engraving showing a formal evening event of the Social Science Association, Westminster Hall, London, 1862

The Royal Panopticon, Leicester Square, London, 1852
Engraving showing the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art, which was being built in Leicester Square during 1852. When constructed the Panopticons dome was somewhat smaller in size than this image

Going to the Attack
Going to the attack A depiction of leucocytes and phagocytes as the Army of the Interior, armed with bows and arrows, on their way to fight off infection

Indian Observatory from the Medieval period, with the title Bramins Observatory

Amazing Stories Plane
A stylised cover showing an aeroplane flying through circles of light

Le Verrier & L Philippe
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier explains the discovery of Neptune to the French King Loius Philippe at the Tuileries

Alexandre H G De Cassini
ALEXANDRE H G DE CASSINI French botanist, and member of the French Royal Academy of Science

An airmans altitude helmet, for high altitude flights
The 25th year of heavier-than-air machines, an airmans altitude helmet. A dinner for the anniversary was staged at the Science Museum, the historic biplane, loaned by Orville Wright

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